Misplaced Legion Contributor(s): Turtledove, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345330676 ISBN-13: 9780345330673 Publisher: Del Rey Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 1987 Annotation: As they faced one another in a duel of survival, the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus held the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest, and the Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a similar sword, bespelled by a rival Druid sorcerer. At the moment they touched, the two found themselves under a strange night sky where no stars were familiar and where Gaul and Rome were unknown. They were in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos--in a world where magic and dark sorcery would test their skill and courage as no Roman legion had ever been tested before. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00000000 |
Series: Videssos Cycle |
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 4.23" W x 6.87" (0.38 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The legion was far from Caesar's Gaul and Rome, banished to a world of magic and dark sorcery. Book One of The Videssos Cycle As they faced one another in a duel of survival, the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus held the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest, and the Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a similar sword, bespelled by a rival Druid sorcerer. At the moment they touched, the two found themselves under a strange night sky where no stars were familiar and where Gaul and Rome were unknown. They were in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos--in a world where magic and dark sorcery would test their skill and courage as no Roman legion had ever been tested before. |